"The View" host and "Fuller House" actress Candace Cameron Bure used to suffer from bulimia during her early 20s, and the only way she was able to overcome her eating disorder was through her strong Christian faith.
It was only when she stopped obsessing about her celebrity identity and focused on God's unconditional love for her that Bure came to terms with her body issues. She learned to embrace what God had given her and stopped trying to adhere to society's standards for beauty.
"I realised that God's love doesn't change for anyone. It doesn't depend on a number on a scale. It isn't dependent on what our body looks like," she tells Delish. "Grace is such a big word for me, because there's such a standard that so many of us long to achieve. Sometimes you just have to take aside and say, 'I need to live in grace.'"
Now that she is 40 years old, Bure maintains a strict yet healthy diet and exercises occasionally. She no longer binge eats but enjoys vegan dishes whenever she feels hungry. The actress finds nourishment on nuts, seeds, beans, and whole grains, but does away with dairy to cure her irritable stomach and reduce the puffiness of her face and body.
Bure's amazing figure has people commenting that she looks more like a 20-something girl, but Bure says her body is far from perfect. "Like most women, I fuss about a few things I wish I could change," she admits to Cosmopolitan. "[But] I am at my best weight and fitness level considering my lifestyle."
It takes quite an effort for Bure to look good, but she stresses that giving the body proper nourishment is more important. "Nutrition, for me, is something that's ongoing and ever-changing," she says. "It's just knowledge, and that's why it's ever-changing for me, to just keep reading the new research and then, ultimately, figuring out, on your own body, what works best."
